Opportunities available within the field of Materials, and Advanced and Computational Mechanics are:

• Biological applications: Simulation of cutting for surgery, design of artificial skin, bloodflow, image to Mesh Pipeline, in order to obtain simulation ready models from images acquired by CT or MRI.
• Materials Applications: Design methods to simulate materials from CT images across several scales. Optimization of Structures and Material microstructures, design and analysis of electronic textiles .
• Simplification of the pipeline between Computer-Aided Design and simulation, in particular in the field of damage tolerance assessments of complex structures.
• Development of a range of methods for linear and nonlinear mechanics.
• Methods to reduce computational expense, in particular work in multiscale and model reduction.
• Mechanics of biomaterials: This project aims to study the mechanical properties of biomaterials/structures.
• Properties of composite materials: This project aims to optimize the mechanical/thermal/electric properties of composite materials in order to achieve the desired combination of different properties and to best meet the engineering requirements.
• Fluid transportation in porous/cellular materials/structures: This project aims to study how biological structures transport water.
• Postbuckling of laminated composite structures.
• Modelling of damage in laminated composite structures.
• Identification of damage in laminated composite structures.
• Layup optimisation for composite laminates.
• Optimisation of VICONOPT stacking sequence.
• Structural metamaterials for cloaking and wave shielding: applications in civil and mechanical engineering.
• Advanced electroactive soft material devices: smart actuation and energy harvesting.
• Mechanics of quasicrystalline structures: wave propagation, instabilities and self similarity.

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